Gila Pfeffer

Nov 20, 2024 | thejc.com | Gila Pfeffer

It is not often that you meet someone for the first time and immediately launch into a conversation about boobs. As a fellow carrier of the BRCA gene mutation, which is more prevalent in the Jewish community and vastly increases breast and ovarian cancer risk, before we have even ordered coffee, I have told the writer and essayist all about my own “cancer story”. It ended with preventative surgery, as it thankfully does for most people who choose that route.

Aug 20, 2024 | mcsweeneys.net | Gila Pfeffer

Date: August 15, 2008Name: Gila Pfeffer (nee Reinitz)Age: 34Height: 5′3″ (OK, 5′2¾″)Weight: RUDEWho referred you to see us today? My ob-gyn referred me to this practice specifically, but if you’re asking whose idea it was to have a prophylactic double mastectomy, that’s all me. I’ve been wanting to do this since I first heard about it. Have you had a psych eval? Yes, I’m fully on board with my choice and frankly would need more of a psych eval if I was prevented from having this surgery.

Jul 29, 2024 | hadassahmagazine.org | Margalit Fox |Gila Pfeffer |Hasia R. Diner |Adina Allen

Email Print The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime BossBy Margalit Fox (Random House)Journalist Margalit Fox brings to vivid life a storied figure largely unknown today: A Jewish woman who was one of the most infamous underworld criminal leaders in 19th century New York City.

Jul 9, 2024 | msn.com | Gila Pfeffer

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Jul 9, 2024 | today.com | Gila Pfeffer

July 9, 2024, 1:45 PM UTCBy To share or not to share? That is the question parents face any time there’s news in the family, good or bad. Some believe that honesty is always the best policy. Others, like me, think it depends on a host of factors: the kids’ ages, how long-term the problem is, and whether it's more beneficial or more harmful for them to know all the details. My kids were 1, 3, 5 and 7 years old when I had a preventative double mastectomy.